What If?
Which is more important, getting more efficient at Call of Duty or getting familiar with the book of Romans? Which is more important to hit hard, the gym or the Bible? Which will take you further, a rock hard body and physical strength or walking in the spirit? Can leveling up on XBox Live take us deeper into God’s Presence? What wins souls, witnessing or gossiping? The need for God and His Spirit is high. People know that they need something but they don’t know what. Do they need bodies like Arnold Schwarzenegger or Halle Berry? Do they need to spend their money on worldly objects to gain temporary satisfaction? To look beautiful or socially attractive?
There is a hole to be filled. Like drug addicts, people do more and more to gain temporary satisfaction. Once that satisfaction runs out they look to a new place or spend more money. There is a hole inside that needs to be filled, but everything being put in is just seeping through. Nothing is a perfect match for what they need The conclusion naturally follows that this is just how life is, and the new mental norm is created. The gaping hole that is in need of being filled is called ‘normal.’ The constant quest for temporary satisfaction is now normal and people are left with tons of worldly toys, junk, gadgets and memories but no happiness or lasting satisfaction.
But what if… what if we had what they need? What if we had what fills the hole, the missing piece to the puzzle? What if we had a million dollars that never ran out? Would we share it with anyone and everyone at any given chance or would we keep it for ourselves? Would we give into social pressure and contemplate what someone might think about us if we talk about it? What if they think that I’m weird or dumb? What if?
What if I reached out and touched someone, helped someone? What if I reached out and gave that person what they’ve desired for 20, 40, maybe even 60 years? What if I gave freely what has been freely given to me? What if a life was changed and then they changed a life and then more and more lives were changed? What if 5 minutes of wholehearted witnessing saved 5 million lives? What if I put the ‘re’s back in ‘prioritize’ and evaluated and refocused the lens of my life on what was important?
What if I hit the streets and a holy ghost fire was started? What if God spilled out of my words and conversations and people began getting tears in their eyes and that hole in their hearts began to take notice? What if I prayed for some and they began to cry and drop to their knees and speak in unknown tongues? What if, instead of watching the waters and analyzing them every day, I stepped out of the boat and began to walk on water with Jesus? What if God had his way in my life? What If?
What if…you made it to heaven and God asked you if you did everything you could to get here?
Reality check, it’s only what you do for Him that counts!
That’s the real stuff God intended life to be made of – great vision.